NGOs are playing a crucial role in the development of developing countries. NGOs accountability is gradually emerging as a pressing issue in the development arena. The NGOs' effectiveness can be amplified by ensuring ...

This thesis describes public sector corruption in a rural setting of Kenya. It also assesses the effects of civil service wage on reported cases of corruption in the Kenyan public sector. It argues that understanding public ...

Nepalese bureaucracy is accused of being inefficient, corrupt, non-transparent and irresponsible. It is also said that Afno Manchhe and Chakari, which is deeply rooted in Nepalese social values, is also highly institutionalized ...

Muriisa, Roberts Kabeba(Doctoral thesis, The University of Bergen, 2007-05-25)

AIDS has a devastating impact on individuals and society. It is defined as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and it is a condition caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This condition occurs when people who ...

Karyeija, Gerald Kagambirwe(Master thesis, The University of Bergen, 2005)

This thesis argues that in order to understand Uganda’s social security reforms and how they were formulated, it is important to consider the patterns of interaction amongst the key actors.
The major objective is to map ...

Gaining access to land is a problem that confronts both Government and non state
capitalist agents in Ghana. The study examined why the state lacks an effective
institutional capacity with the political and technical ...

This article uses a case study to analyse two main dilemmas that performance auditors face when auditing complex interventions in governance. The first dilemma, concerning the performance auditors’ roles as improvement ...

Bohlin, Borgar Emanuelsen(Master thesis, The University of Bergen, 2013-06-14)

While considerable strides have been made in South Africa in addressing the skewed patterns of access to adequate shelter among its citizens, significant challenges lie ahead. Since the first democratic elections of 1994 ...